3Nov/090
Attack of the Absent-Minded AI Designers
Shane Legg has worked for more groups pursuing AGI than anyone else in our community. He has worked for Ben Goertzel's Webmind, Peter Voss' A2I2, before returning to academia under the well-known AGI theorist Marcus Hutter. Therefore, when he lays down a scary scenario about AI in a 2-hour talk on Halloween, you should listen. David Wood's summary is a good place to get the main ideas.